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Lung Health & COPD in the News


🗣💨 • November is COPD Awareness Month • O2

November is National COPD Awareness Month in 2022 - NIH: Learn More Breathe Better® program

November is Alpha-1 Awareness Month in 2022 - Alpha-1 Foundation: “Let’s Cure It”



Advocacy

Talking Points for Presentations

COPD Foundation: The COPD Action Center


📜🖊📨     Congress Must Act to Ensure Access to Supplemental Oxygen     📜🖊📨

Tell Secretary Becerra to Act Quickly to Remove Menthol Cigarettes Study open as of November 26, 2022


COPD Awareness Month

November is National COPD Awareness Month in 2022

November is Alpha-1 Awareness Month in 2022

Healthy Lung Month — October 2022

World Bronchiectasis Day – July 1, 2022

Letters to Editor



COPD in the News & Advocacy Projects

🌍 Links to Worldwide Coronavirus Disease (COVID—19) Coverage 🌏

2022 COPD Foundation: Coronavirus Information for the COPD Community

🍏A Guide to Living With COPD During the COVID–19 Pandemic: Help, Resources, and Making a Personal Checklist🍏

Monoclonal Antibody Therapy for COVID-19 What the COPD Community Needs to Know

Coronavirus disease (COVID–19) Advice for the Public: Myth Busters